Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Isosyllabic, Stanzaic |
Description: | | (englin lledd uhv broyst) A quatrain of seven-syllable
lines that diphthong-rhymes. Apparently the Welsh language has four diphthongs: ae, oe, wy, and ei. A diphthong, besides being a very fun word to say, is a
complex vowel sound created by gliding between two vowel sounds, as in words like: down, boy, Oy! In the Welsh form, all of the diphthongs are considered to
rhyme with each other. You can do the same with English, just end the lines in some sort of diphthong.
Here's a list of English diphthongs:
- [aU] as in house
- [aI] as in kite
- [eI] as in same
- [ju:] as in few
- [oU] as in hope
- [oI] as in join.
- [e(I)] day
- [aI] my
- [oI] boy
- [o(U)] no
- [aU] now
- [I@] near, here
- [e@] hair, there
- [U@] tour
- [ju] pupil
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